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Katavi
Katavi Region (Mkoa wa Katavi) is a western Tanzania region created in 2012 from Rukwa, covering 47,527 km² with districts Mpanda, Mlele, and Tanganyika; 1,152,958 people (2022 census) and an agriculture-based economy.
Katsina State
Katsina State, northwestern Nigeria, created 23 September 1987 from Kaduna State, capital Katsina city, 34 LGAs, about 10.37 million people (2022 projection), agrarian economy, Nigeria's largest cotton producer, historic Hausa emirate.
Kaunas County
Kaunas County (Kauno apskritis) is a territorial unit and NUTS-3 statistical region (LT022) in central Lithuania, centered on Kaunas, with 569,571 inhabitants in 2021 across 8 municipalities.
Kayanza Province
Kayanza is a commune of Butanyerera Province in northern Burundi, on the highlands of the Great Rift Valley seam on the Nile-Congo divide; its economy rests on coffee, tea, and food crops.
Kayin State (ကရင်ပြည်နယ်)
Kayin State (ကရင်ပြည်နယ်), also known as Karen State, is a state of southeastern Myanmar on the Thai border and the heartland of the Karen people.
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (Қазақ Кеңестік Социалистік Республикасы)
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (Қазақ Кеңестік Социалистік Республикасы), or Kazakh SSR: Soviet union republic covering present-day Kazakhstan, 1936–1991, after the 1920 Kirghiz/Kazakh ASSR; marked by the 1930–33 famine, Virgin Lands agriculture, Semipalatinsk nuclear tests, and independence on 16 December 1991.
Kebbi State
Kebbi State, northwestern Nigeria, capital Birnin Kebbi, created 27 August 1991 from Sokoto State; 21 LGAs, agriculture-based economy, Argungu Fishing Festival, high poverty and fertility rates.
Keçiören
Keçiören (Kecioren) is a metropolitan district of northern Ankara, Turkey; formerly Kiçiviran, a 1936 township, Altındağ suburb, and independent district since 1983, with about 932,000 residents and Ankara's highest district density.
Kedah
Kedah (Kedah Darul Aman) is a state in northern Peninsular Malaysia bordering Thailand, with an ancient sultanate, capital Alor Setar, and lagging-state income and poverty indicators.
Kelantan
Kelantan (كلنتن, Kelate) is a monarchical state on the northeast coast of Peninsular Malaysia with capital Kota Bharu; a former Siamese dependency under British rule from 1909, it records Malaysia's second-highest poverty rate (11.5% in 2024) and lowest household incomes.
Kemerovo Oblast
Kemerovo Oblast (Кемеровская область), officially Kemerovo Oblast – Kuzbass, is a federal subject of Russia in southwestern Siberia, created in 1943 with its center at Kemerovo.
Kengtung State
Kengtung State, also known as Keng Tung or Kyaingtong (Burmese: ကျိုင်းတုံ), was a hereditary Tai Khün principality in eastern Myanmar, the largest of the Shan States.
Kenitra Province
Kenitra Province (إقليم القنيطرة) is a province of Morocco in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region on the Atlantic coast, named after its capital city and the most populous province in the country.
Kepulauan Bangka Belitung
Kepulauan Bangka Belitung (Babel), Indonesia's 31st province, formed 21 November 2000 by UU No. 27/2000 from South Sumatra; capital Pangkalpinang; two main islands, Bangka and Belitung; tin-producing island province.
Kerala (കേരളം)
Kerala (കേരളം), southwestern Indian state formed 1 November 1956 from Travancore-Cochin, Malabar, and Kasaragod; capital Thiruvananthapuram, 38,863 sq km, Malayalam-speaking, famed for the Kerala model of high human development.
Kericho
Kericho County, Kenya (county 035), South Rift tea-growing county, HQ Kericho town; 901,777 people (2019), 2,436 km2, six sub-counties; agriculture 43.5% of GCP, led by tea.
Kerman, Iran
Kerman is a province in southeastern Iran, the country's largest at 182,000 km², with the city of Kerman as its capital and earthquakes recurring every five to ten years.
Kermanshah Province
Kermanshah Province (Persian: کرمانشاه), also called Bāḵtarān in 1980s official usage, is a province in western Iran on the Zagros transit route to Mesopotamia, capital Kermanshah, area about 24,434 km², population 1,952,434 (2016 census).
Khabarovsk Krai (Хабаровский край)
Khabarovsk Krai (Хабаровский край), a large federal subject in the central Russian Far East formed in 1938, capital Khabarovsk; 787,600 km², about 1.27 million people, diversified industry, timber, and Far East transport hub.
Khakassia
Khakassia (Республика Хакасия) is a Russian federal republic in southern Siberia, capital Abakan, area 61,569 km², population about 532,000, sharply continental climate, rich in molybdenum and coal, with the Oglakhty rock art on UNESCO's Tentative List.
Khammouan
Khammouan (ຄໍາມ່ວນ), also Khammouane, is a central province of Laos with capital Thakhek on the Mekong opposite Thailand. Known for karst mountains, Nam Theun 2 hydropower, Sikhottabong heritage, and a fiscal-surplus, tourism-growing economy.
Khanh Hoa
Tỉnh Khánh Hòa (Khanh Hoa Province), South Central Coast Vietnam province formed 1 July 2025 by merging Khánh Hòa and Ninh Thuận; 8,555.86 km2, 2,243,554 people, center Nha Trang, 65 commune-level units including đặc khu Trường Sa.
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Ханты-Мансийский автономный округ — Югра)
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra (Ханты-Мансийский автономный округ — Югра), a Russian federal subject in western Siberia within Tyumen Oblast; Russia's largest oil producer at about 40% of national output, homeland of the Khanty and Mansi peoples.
Kharkiv Oblast (Харківська область)
Kharkiv Oblast (Харківська область), northeastern Ukrainian region with capital Kharkiv; 31,415 km², 7 raions, formed 1932; major gas reserves, machine-building economy, active front line since 2022.
Kharkov Governorate
Kharkov Governorate (Харківська губернія) was a province of the Russian Empire on the territory of Sloboda Ukraine, with its capital at Kharkiv; created in 1765, it was renamed in 1835 and abolished in 1925.
Khartoum State (ولاية الخرطوم)
Khartoum State (ولاية الخرطوم), Sudan's smallest but most populous state (SD01), contains the capital at the Blue–White Nile confluence; seven localities, pre-war population about 8–9 million, devastated and partly recaptured in the 2023–2025 SAF–RSF war.
Khatumo State
Khatumo State, also spelled Khaatumo, is a federal member state of Somalia declared in 2012 by the Dhulbahante clan in the disputed Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn regions.
Kherson Governorate
Kherson Governorate (Херсонська губернія) was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire in southern Ukraine, named for its capital and existing from 1803 to 1920.
Kherson Oblast (Херсонська область)
Kherson Oblast (Херсонська область), a southern Ukrainian oblast created 30 March 1944 with capital Kherson; since November 2022 split by the Dnipro River between Ukrainian right-bank control and Russian-occupied left bank.
Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Khmelnytskyi Oblast (Хмельницька область), a western-central Ukrainian oblast created 22 September 1937 as Kamianets-Podilska and renamed 1954; area 20.6 thousand km², population about 1.23 million, center Khmelnytskyi.